Quote For The Day

"I do try to keep my Blogposts non-personal -- but on a personal note, although I haven't talked about him much in recent years except to a few people, I've been thinking a lot during the past few weeks about my longtime partner, Darryl. He died after an auto accident two days after our 10th Anniversary. It was quite some years ago, so the good memories remain.

I'm pretty good at visualization, so I felt that Darryl was next to me when I was standing behind [New Hampshire] Governor John Lynch as he signed HB 437, the Civil Unions bill, on May 31, 2007. And I also felt Darryl standing with us as the Governor signed HB 436, marriage equality, on June 3rd of this year. He had a wonderful smile that day," - state rep Jim Splaine.

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